The Sex Pistols in 1978
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Anarchy, filth and fury will likely be exploding into living rooms around the world after it was announced this afternoon that Trainspotting filmmaker Danny Boyle will direct a six-part TV biopic about punk rockers the Sex Pistols.
Pistol will be based on guitarist Steve Jones’s no-holds-barred 2016 autobiography Lonely Boy: Tales from a Sex Pistol. Production will start in March with a cast including Game of Thrones actress Maisie Williams.
The film will focus on Jones’s early years and how the punk subculture caused both moral outrage and a fashion revolution in the buttoned-up London of the mid-1970s. “Imagine breaking into the world of The Crown and Downton Abbey with your mates and screaming your songs and your fury at all they represent,” Boyle said. “This is the moment that British society and culture changed forever. It is the detonation point for British high-street culture.”
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Danny Boyle to direct TV series about the Sex Pistols
Danny Boyle will direct the TV series Pistol (Ian West/PA)
Danny Boyle will direct a TV series about the Sex Pistols based on guitarist Steve Jones’s memoir, it has been announced.
Pistol will be a six-episode limited series starring Babyteeth actor Toby Wallace and Game Of Thrones actress Maisie Williams.
Created by Craig Pearce and written by Pearce and Frank Cottrell Boyce, it will be based on the book Lonely Boy: Tales From A Sex Pistol.
The Sex Pistols, from left to right; Steve Jones, John Lydon, Glen Matlock and Paul Cook (Andy Butterton/PA)